2012

LSU Shreveport Professor to Publish and Present on Homeland Security and Terrorism

January 18, 2012

Dr. W. Chris Hale, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at LSU Shreveport, will publish a manuscript entitled Extremism on the World Wide Web: A Research Review, in an upcoming special edition of Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law and Society." This special issue will be labeled "Homeland Security: Ten Years After 9/11" and will contain empirical, theoretical and policy manuscripts addressing important homeland security questions. Criminal Justice Studies is a quarterly journal published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.

Hale will also chair the panel on "Federal Law Enforcement and Homeland Security" at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences to be held March 13-17 in New York City, N.Y. In addition, he will be presenting a paper entitled, Attitudes toward Surveillance, Civil Liberty Restrictions and Feelings of Threat from Terrorism, Ten Years after 9/11, and a second paper addressing Islamophobia. The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) is an international association established in 1963 to foster professional and scholarly activities in the field of criminal justice.